Tommie Goh Thiam Poh - 2G Capital

1. Chairman of 2G Capital, a private investment company

2. Founded JIT Holdings in 1988 , a Singapore contract electronics manufacturer

3. Awarded the Public Service Medal in 2002

4. Conferred the Doctor of Philosophy by Wisconsin International University in 2000

5. Sold JIT to Flextronics November 2000 in a $640 million stock deal. Former Board Member at Flextronics International Ltd.

6. Spent $3.7 million on a 68th-storey unit in Tower 1 of The Sail @ Marina Bay a waterfront lifestyle condominium located in the Marina Bay area in Singapore.

7. Continues to invest in companies in Asia Pacific and is supportive of the study of entrepreneurship.

8. In 2000, donated $2m to establish the The Tommie Goh Professorial Chair in Entrepreneurship and Business at SMU.

9. Listed as the 19th largest shareholder in the Midas Holdings 2014 Annual Report

Tommie Goh Thiam Poh

Mr Goh was appointed as a director in March 2003 and is a member of the Compensation and Audit

Committees. Mr Goh was last re-elected in 2003.

Mr Goh is currently the Chairman of 2G Capital Pte Ltd. He also sits on the board of Vision Technologies System Inc, and SGX-listed Seksun Corporation Ltd.

 

Prior to his appointment with SingPost, Mr Goh was the co-founder and Executive Chairman of JIT Holdings Ltd from 1988 to 2000. He founded JIT Electronics in 1988 with 20 employees in a 5,000 square feet rented factory space. He spearheaded JIT Electronics’ rise to become one of the top 20 largest electronics manufacturing service providers in the world before its merger in August 2000 with Flextronics International.

 

By 2000, JIT Electronics had over 5,000 employees with over 1 million square feet of owned factory space in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, China and Hungary, as well as a sales and marketing network in the Asia Pacific and the United States.

In 2000, Mr Goh was conferred the Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration by Wisconsin International University. In recognition of his business achievements, he was named the Rotary-Asme Entrepreneur of the Year in 1997 by the Rotary Club of Singapore. He was also named Businessman of the Year in Singapore in 1999 at the Singapore Business Awards jointly organised by The Business Times and DHL Worldwide Express. In 1998, JIT Holdings Limited was awarded the Singapore Business Enterprise Award. In 2002, Mr Goh was conferred the Public Service Medal.
 

 

 

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